Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise. Its mission; to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out, new life and new civilizations, to boldly go, where no man has gone, before… This was the beginning...
Born in the mid to late 30’s, Flash Gordon has been present in one form or another for nearly 80 years! How cool is that? Alex Raymond first brought Flash to life as a comic strip in the newspapers of the day. From there, he traveled to radio...
This is the last of my Green Lantern posts for a bit. I’ve told you all about Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner and Alan Scott – have mentioned Kyle Rayner, but not much cuz he was after me for the most part. But what I want to...
Before Hal Jordan or John Stewart, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner came along, there was another Green Lantern. The Original. Born in the ‘Golden Age of Comics’ (1930’s-1940’s), this Green Lantern was more magical than...
The Green Lantern: Guy Gardner When the Green Lantern of sector 2814 lay dying on the planet Earth, he asked his ring to seek out a worthy successor to pass the ring onto. To his astonishment, the ring found not one, but two worthy beings on the...
The Green Lantern: John Stewart One day, the Green Lantern for sector 2814 flew to the planet OA, home of the blue skinned, telepathic Guardians, and quit. His name was Hal Jordan. His long time girlfriend, Carol Ferris, had demanded that he...
I find these things interesting, and thought I would share em by compiling a list here today. The names were NOT changed to protect the innocent. Ars Technica Ars Technica has a lot of interesting articles each week. Sometimes I link em on...
When I think of the Green Lantern, I think of the Silver Age Lantern – Hal Jordan. (I am fully aware of Alan Scott, though) Hal Jordan was a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft. One day, he was enveloped in a green light and whisked away to the middle...
If you could say one nice thing about the whole mega crossover extravaganza event called ‘Knightfall’, ‘Knightquest’ and ‘KnightsEnd’ – it’s that it had a monumental epilogue that every Batman fan (I think) wanted to see: Dick Grayson stepping up...
The culmination of a story that had Batman beaten and broken, then replaced, KnightsEnd sees Bruce Wayne return to reclaim his mantle and his city. Gotham is a mess. Police Commissioner Gordon no longer trusts the Batman, Robin has been expelled...
Following Knightfall, Knightquest was the aftermath of Bane breaking The Batman’s back in the Batcave, then taking over Gotham. Something had to be done. Gotham needed a Batman. Knightquest was actually two separate storylines. In the first, The...
In the early nineties, the event was the thing in comics. Several high profile sales of rare comics had brought tons of people to comic book stores to purchase comics as collectibles / investments. You could call it the ‘heyday’ of comic sales...
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